Bad news, folks. A dual carriageway near Frankfurt am Main in Germany was the last road for two Mercedes-Benz test drivers who were killed in a car crash Monday morning around 10:30. According to the local reports, the driver lost control and crashed into the woods next to the road, while he was driving a four-year-old customer-owned Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren for a test drive.
The car crash ended with catastrophic consequences for both drivers, who were killed and car, which was totally destroyed. Before it stopped between trees and bushes, the supercar’s wing doors were torn off, the 626hp engine thrown out of the body work. While the red sports seats were empty, the bodies of the two men were found back somewhere in the woods close to the car.
Police spokesman Andrew Beese said: “The road is a wide open highway without any speed limit. It is eight kilometers long, and has almost no curves”.
It seems that shortly before the open highway, the highway 8 at Kelkheim (Hessen) is a single track and only 80km/h is allowed. This is the point of the road, where the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren hit the right guardrail, flew nearly ten meters high, brushed the tree tops, sailed a further 35 meters, and crashed down a steep slope.
As we said already, the driver and passenger (both were seen as professionals behind the wheel; both young fathers) were ejected and killed instantly.
